[tor-dev] Unused -v and -F options in torperf/trivsocks-client?

2011-07-28 Thread David Fifield
Fifield From 57b03530ba40e2c24d07daaa38d2b42295b49d8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Fifield da...@bamsoftware.com Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:17:59 + Subject: [PATCH] Remove unused command-line options -v and -F. --- trivsocks-client.c |8 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6

Re: [tor-dev] Unused -v and -F options in torperf/trivsocks-client?

2011-07-29 Thread David Fifield
, for example https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/a5232e0c4c572cdff85701f698b8b90c9443d7e4. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Browser-based proxies for circumvention

2011-12-21 Thread David Fifield
and secure. Though the system is already partly usable, I still consider it a research project, not a finished product. Circumvention is such a big topic I haven't covered all the details in this message, so I value your clarifying questions. David Fifield

Re: [tor-dev] [flashproxy] Not running using gnash

2011-12-22 Thread David Fifield
./connector.py -f tor-facilitator.bamsoftware.com :9001 :7000 David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] [flashproxy] Not running using gnash

2011-12-23 Thread David Fifield
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:00:01PM -0300, Mauricio Pasquier Juan wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 07:31:59PM -0800, David Fifield wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 03:38:29PM +0100, Okhin wrote: Hello, I was trying to run flashproxy using gnash following the RTMFP part of the tutorial

Re: [tor-dev] Browser-based proxies for circumvention

2012-01-07 Thread David Fifield
of the design. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Missing methodname in proposal 180 example

2012-03-24 Thread David Fifield
I found a little typo in proposal 180. David Fifield From 2898d5aa5ea72541b8a758ebde15086ae92c2d80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Fifield da...@bamsoftware.com Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:00:53 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add missing methodname in SMETHOD-ERROR example. --- proposals/180

Re: [tor-dev] Stegotorus now available from gitweb.torproject.org

2012-06-04 Thread David Fifield
server 127.0.0.1:9005 192.168.1.99:11253 http 192.168.1.99:11254 skype David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Stegotorus now available from gitweb.torproject.org

2012-06-05 Thread David Fifield
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 09:35:10PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: On 2012-06-04 8:13 PM, David Fifield wrote: $ git clone https://git.torproject.org/stegotorus.git $ cd stegotorus $ autoreconf -i $ ./configure make $ ./stegotorus null socks 127.0.0.1:5000 [info] ./stegotorus process 28359

[tor-dev] Flash proxy deployment

2012-07-03 Thread David Fifield
of the flash proxy system. I do hope to receive your consideration and honest feedback, positive and negative. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Flash proxy deployment

2012-07-07 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 04:31:53PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: During the development meeting today, the group interested in pluggable transports decided to begin to deploy the flash proxy transport in the near future. As a reminder, flash proxies use a small JavaScript/WebSocket program

[tor-dev] Brainstorming about steganographic transports

2012-07-25 Thread David Fifield
encode its stream directly in DFA edge transitions. I think it will be interesting to see 1) how far a simple system can get us, and 2) what additional changes we would have to make to be provably secure against censors using more sophisticated computational models than regex. David Fifield

Re: [tor-dev] Format-Transforming Encryption for Censorship Circumvention

2012-09-06 Thread David Fifield
for steganographic encoding of messages using regular languages, along with initial findings for a Python/C++ based implementation. Is there published source code for the implementation? David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-dev] Format-Transforming Encryption for Censorship Circumvention

2012-09-11 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 09:39:45AM -0700, Kevin P Dyer wrote: On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:30 PM, David Fifield da...@bamsoftware.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 09:25:58AM -0700, Kevin P Dyer wrote: Following my email to this list, dated 29/07/2012, I direct your attention to the IACR

[tor-dev] Windows binary flash proxy packages

2012-12-02 Thread David Fifield
Browser Bundle. Perhaps we should try to coordinate this into a combined pyobfsproxy/flash proxy bundle? David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Opening new SOCKS to client plugin for new circuit?

2012-12-03 Thread David Fifield
haven't verified it.) David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Opening new SOCKS to client plugin for new circuit?

2012-12-15 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:37:16PM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:20 PM, David Fifield da...@bamsoftware.com wrote: I noticed a change in behavior in cb62a0b69a7d67b427224ca4c3075b49853a3a1f or thereabouts. tor opens a new SOCKS connection to a client transport

[tor-dev] Opt-in model for flash proxy

2012-12-28 Thread David Fifield
part of the table. It will also help us switch to opt-in-only if we can get lots of people to opt in in advance. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC 2013: Enable flashproxy to use WebRTC

2013-04-30 Thread David Fifield
of this research has been done already, and we made a plan for a prototype implementation. A full implementation looks to be nontrivial and will probably take at least the summer. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Launcher settings UI feedback request

2013-05-04 Thread David Fifield
for reachability or for security https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4624 https://blog.torproject.org/blog/different-ways-use-bridge David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [tor-dev] Iran

2013-05-05 Thread David Fifield
, but they do have an implementation and are inviting testers. http://fte.kpdyer.com/ David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Local onionoo cache

2013-05-12 Thread David Fifield
is worth the additional code. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Moved pluggable transports bundle build scripts

2013-06-01 Thread David Fifield
transports into it, and packs it back up. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Building better pluggable transports - GSoC 2013 project

2013-06-11 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 05:46:49PM +0100, Steven Murdoch wrote: On 11 Jun 2013, at 12:49, Steven Murdoch [1]steven.murd...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: There certainly are quite a few open questions, so it would be good to start planning early. Implementing HTTP is a deceptively difficult

Re: [tor-dev] Standalone flash proxy

2013-06-21 Thread David Fifield
to copy a directory tree into the current directory. npm install flashproxy npm start flashproxy From there I started seeing debug messages. Anyone else care to test this procedure? This is a way of running a flash proxy without a browser; i.e. as a background daemon. David Fifield

Re: [tor-dev] Gitian builds in VirtualBox with Vagrant

2013-06-27 Thread David Fifield
at the same place and time as the vanilla bundles. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Gitian builds in VirtualBox with Vagrant

2013-06-28 Thread David Fifield
in that step): https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/gitian/descriptors/linux/gitian-bundle.yml That looks pretty cool. If I find time I'll try one of these reproducible builds. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list

Re: [tor-dev] New flash proxy facilitator domain fp-facilitator.org

2013-06-30 Thread David Fifield
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:32:08AM -0700, David Fifield wrote: I moved the flash proxy facilitator to a new domain, fp-facilitator.org. This is to get it away from bamsoftware.com, which also has a lot of unrelated stuff. The old facilitator name tor-facilitator.bamsoftware.com will continue

Re: [tor-dev] RFC: obfsproxyssh

2013-07-26 Thread David Fifield
, authenticating with a RSA public/private key pair and opening a direct-tcp channel to the ORPort of the bridge. Is there a public server running this code that people can test against? David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https

[tor-dev] Testing flash proxy infrastructure

2013-09-08 Thread David Fifield
/embed.html?debugclient=127.0.0.1:9000relay=127.0.0.1:9901 David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Pluggable Transport TBB Build

2013-10-06 Thread David Fifield
-firefox.yml https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/gitian/descriptors/linux/gitian-bundle.yml So far, the most progress I have made on #9444 is to do a reproducible build of the vanilla bundle. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing

Re: [tor-dev] Pluggable Transport TBB Build

2013-10-09 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 12:02:20PM -0400, Kevin P Dyer wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:30 PM, David Fifield da...@bamsoftware.com wrote: This is a good start and goes a long way towards automating the build process. However, I'm looking for Press a button, make a sandwich, have all builds

[tor-dev] Merge of Gitian PT build with 3.0-rc-1; next steps

2013-12-07 Thread David Fifield
transports bundles unconditionally, and just do all the dtars in gitian-bundle.yml twice: once for tor-browser and once for tor-pluggable-transports-browser. Either option, I think, puts us in a good place to step to a unified bundle in the future. What do you think? David Fifield

Re: [tor-dev] fteproxy v0.2.1

2013-12-10 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 07:38:21PM -0800, Kevin P Dyer wrote: dcf1 - I finally have the gitian build process producing vanilla binaries. However, I don't see anything specific to pluggable transports in [1] or [2]. Is there a fork of this code that has logic for building the pluggable

Re: [tor-dev] Gitian Build Failure (pt branch only?)

2013-12-13 Thread David Fifield
installed, but not actually be running 3.2.0. What does uname -a say? David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Some uncommon use cases for PT library transport selection

2014-01-12 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 07:41:42PM -0800, David Fifield wrote: I've been thinking about a couple of tricky use cases for pluggable transport libraries, and whether we should do anything to try to support them. The first use case is the flashproxy/websocket use case. flashproxy-client

Re: [tor-dev] Am I looking at the right spec for pluggable transports?

2014-01-29 Thread David Fifield
:/obfsproxy/network/extended_orport.py https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/goptlib.git/blob/abeea884f554b4119ebd84974c612c0dca6ce941:/pt.go#l581 David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi

[tor-dev] A simple HTTP transport and big ideas

2014-01-31 Thread David Fifield
sizes and polling timeouts; they can probably be tuned for better performance. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] A simple HTTP transport and big ideas

2014-02-03 Thread David Fifield
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:59:34AM -0800, David Fifield wrote: Here is a repository containing a simple HTTP-based transport. git clone https://www.bamsoftware.com/git/meek.git cd meek/meek-client export GOPATH=~/go go get go build tor -f torrc Usually

Re: [tor-dev] Release Candidate: TBB 3.6 + fteproxy 0.2.6

2014-02-05 Thread David Fifield
related to openssl that may or may not affect you. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Release Candidate: TBB 3.6 + fteproxy 0.2.6

2014-02-13 Thread David Fifield
a code audit on miniupnpc and libnatpmp as well. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] obfsproxy dns transport

2014-02-19 Thread David Fifield
as much as I have, so it might not be as clear-cut as I think.) David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Feasibility of using a Tor Browser plugin as a PT component?

2014-02-21 Thread David Fifield
. The first option might not be too bad if we use NSS directly. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Weekly IRC meetings at 19:00 UTC Wednesdays

2014-02-25 Thread David Fifield
/projects/tor/ticket/10362 David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser Weekly IRC meetings at 19:00 UTC Wednesdays

2014-02-25 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 07:09:39PM -0800, David Fifield wrote: 1. What have you been working on last week that other TBB people should be aware of? I made bundles with tor-fw-helper and flash proxy. They worked for some users, but there are questions about port forwardings potentially

[tor-dev] HOWTO use Lantern as a pluggable transport

2014-03-01 Thread David Fifield
address is not hardcoded, so that you can configure it from the command line. It could also be useful for users who need pluggable transports but are stuck behind an HTTP proxy. Special thanks to Ox from Lantern who pair-programmed this with me. David Fifield commit

Re: [tor-dev] Novel distribution mechanisms (was: s3 alternatives on libtech)

2014-03-09 Thread David Fifield
://github.com/goagent/goagent/tree/3.0/local GitHub is great because it's HTTPS only, projects are subdirectories rather than subdomains (so no DNS poisoning), and it's important infrastructure that's difficult to block. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing

Re: [tor-dev] [tor-commits] [flashproxy/master] remove failed connections from proxy_pairs as well

2014-03-10 Thread David Fifield
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 02:39:18PM +, infini...@torproject.org wrote: commit 05b9c101ba9afe4653d1eff6f5414f90f22ef042 Author: Ximin Luo infini...@torproject.org Date: Fri Mar 7 13:39:31 2014 + remove failed connections from proxy_pairs as well - this is a pretty major fix,

Re: [tor-dev] [tor-commits] [flashproxy/master] remove failed connections from proxy_pairs as well

2014-03-10 Thread David Fifield
unless you want to. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] HTTP-requesting browser extension WIP (works in Firefox, not in Tor Browser)

2014-03-10 Thread David Fifield
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 08:08:59PM -0800, David Fifield wrote: We're making progress on meek (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek), the transport that hides your traffic in HTTPS requests to an unblockable web site. It's already doing a good job at reliably transfering

Re: [tor-dev] HTTP-requesting browser extension WIP (works in Firefox, not in Tor Browser)

2014-03-10 Thread David Fifield
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 08:23:35PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: I started trying to write a Firefox extension that makes HTTP requests outside of the proxy settings. I have one that works in Iceweasel 24.3 and does the Host header trick used by the transport. However it doesn't work in Tor

Re: [tor-dev] HTTP-requesting browser extension WIP (works in Firefox, not in Tor Browser)

2014-03-12 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 05:22:37PM -0400, Mark Smith wrote: On 3/10/14, 11:23 PM, David Fifield wrote: I started trying to write a Firefox extension that makes HTTP requests outside of the proxy settings. I have one that works in Iceweasel 24.3 and does the Host header trick used

Re: [tor-dev] HTTP-requesting browser extension WIP (works in Firefox, not in Tor Browser)

2014-03-16 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:31:16PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 05:22:37PM -0400, Mark Smith wrote: On 3/10/14, 11:23 PM, David Fifield wrote: I started trying to write a Firefox extension that makes HTTP requests outside of the proxy settings. I have one that works

Re: [tor-dev] How to run a headless second Firefox instance?

2014-04-09 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 04:31:57PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: On 09/04/14 07:29, David Fifield wrote: It gets the job done, but it sucks because the first thing you see is the dialog and you have to know not to close it. Is there a way to accomplish the same thing (keep the browser running

Re: [tor-dev] How to run a headless second Firefox instance?

2014-04-10 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:29:25PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: We talked a while ago about using a browser extension to make HTTPS requests on behalf of a pluggable transport, so that the TLS doesn't stand out as unusual (#11183). I have that working pretty well and you can try it out. Using

[tor-dev] Please try 3.5.4-meek-1 bundles (covert HTTPS pluggable transport)

2014-04-18 Thread David Fifield
are experimental and you shouldn't use them to replace your main browser just yet. We're most interested in hearing about what didn't work for you or what was surprising. I'll write another post about code review and other things that need to happen before you'll see meek in a mainline bundle. David Fifield

[tor-dev] Code review for meek

2014-04-18 Thread David Fifield
://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/meek.git/blob/HEAD:/chrome/extension/background.js Browser bundle packaging (#10935) https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/dcf/tor-browser-bundle.git/commitdiff/tbb-3.5.4-meek-1?hp=tbb-3.5.4-build3 David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing

[tor-dev] QA for meek pluggable transport tomorrow, 25 April, 18:30 UTC, #tor-dev

2014-04-24 Thread David Fifield
/meek https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-April/006718.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-April/006719.html How to get on #tor-dev IRC: https://www.torproject.org/about/contact#irc David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing

[tor-dev] Missing days in Bridge users by transport

2014-05-12 Thread David Fifield
-transport David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] A Child's Garden of Pluggable Transports

2014-05-20 Thread David Fifield
. There are sections for obfs3, ScrambleSuit, FTE, flash proxy, meek, and Bananaphone. The page is missing a few more from https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports. If you know how to run any of those transports, and you know an effective way to visualize it, please add it to the page. David

Re: [tor-dev] [PATCH] Add some words about meek in proposal 203

2014-07-07 Thread David Fifield
transport. As I might not be the only one, I thought it could be worthwhile to share David's answer. Feel free to improve! David, do you sign off on this? If so, I'll add it to the proposal. Yes, I wrote those words and said it's okay to use them. David Fifield

Re: [tor-dev] What little-t-tor bridge features/issues we should address?

2014-07-14 Thread David Fifield
://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2764 David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] (meek|flashproxy)+(obfs3|fte|scramblesuit|...)

2014-07-26 Thread David Fifield
dynamic? David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] (meek|flashproxy)+(obfs3|fte|scramblesuit|...)

2014-07-26 Thread David Fifield
+Reporter+Modified+Summary+Starscells=tiles https://code.google.com/p/goagent/issues/detail?id=14732 David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] 3.6.3-meek-2 bundles that can use the Amazon CloudFront CDN

2014-08-03 Thread David Fifield
away. If it becomes too expensive, we'll have to shut it down until we can find a way to fund operation long-term. (The same goes for App Engine, BTW.) David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin

Re: [tor-dev] How to present multiple meek backends in Tor Launcher?

2014-08-05 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 11:07:57AM -0400, Mark Smith wrote: On 8/3/14, 2:37 AM, David Fifield wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 11:28:08PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: I made some test meek bundles that are capable of using the Amazon CloudFront CDN as a backend, in addition to Google App Engine

Re: [tor-dev] Building tbb-4.0a1-build2 fails

2014-08-06 Thread David Fifield
: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBrowser/BuildingWithGitian#AssemblyErrorsinMismatchedArchitectureCode David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Summary of meek's costs, August 2014

2014-08-29 Thread David Fifield
$2.54 David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Temporary decrease in FTE users in late August?

2014-09-15 Thread David Fifield
it had to do with availability of new bridges. If a bunch of bridges got blocked and then new bridges were made available, that could explain it. The 4.0-alpha-2 release was on September 3, but as far as I know it didn't contain new FTE bridges. They could have been added to BridgeDB, I suppose. David

[tor-dev] Call for a big fast bridge (to be the meek backend)

2014-09-15 Thread David Fifield
at it. My PGP key is at https://www.bamsoftware.com/david/david.asc if you want to talk about it. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Why the seeming correlation between flash proxy and meek on metrics graphs?

2014-09-16 Thread David Fifield
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:21:04AM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: On 16/09/14 06:07, David Fifield wrote: We'll see :) For the time being I'll try isolating the transports and see what effect it has. Please keep us posted how that works out. I split the bridge into two processes following

Re: [tor-dev] Gitian Build Issue - Tor Browser

2014-09-17 Thread David Fifield
), and try the make build again. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Call for a big fast bridge (to be the meek backend)

2014-09-17 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:05:39PM -0500, Tom Ritter wrote: On 15 September 2014 21:12, David Fifield da...@bamsoftware.com wrote: Since meek works differently than obfs3, for example, it doesn't help us to have hundreds of medium-fast bridges. We need one (or maybe two or three) big fat

Re: [tor-dev] Call for a big fast bridge (to be the meek backend)

2014-09-18 Thread David Fifield
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 02:02:42PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: On 18/09/14 03:31, David Fifield wrote: Currently in the bundles we're not setting a bridge fingerprint, so relays wouldn't have to share a key. This is something to be *fixed*, not to build future components on top

[tor-dev] meek on Microsoft Azure

2014-09-22 Thread David Fifield
if there are other good front domains. More information on Azure: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#MicrosoftAzure David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman

[tor-dev] Why the seeming anticorrelation between obfs3 and vanilla bridges in metrics graphs?

2014-10-23 Thread David Fifield
at the expense of vanilla and vice versa. 4. Some kind of feedback loop: obfs3 bridges get used and get congested, so users switch to vanilla, which then get used and congested, etc. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Why the seeming anticorrelation between obfs3 and vanilla bridges in metrics graphs?

2014-10-25 Thread David Fifield
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:32:41AM -0700, David Fifield wrote: In the past few months of bridge user graphs, there is an apparent negative correlation between obfs3 users and vanilla users: when one goes up, the other goes down. If you draw a horizontal line at about 5500, they are almost

[tor-dev] A fun graph you can make at home

2014-10-29 Thread David Fifield
-all-paginated.pdf David Fifield library(ggplot2) x - read.csv(clients.csv) x$date - as.Date(x$date) # Remove outlier point at 2011-03-06. x - x[x$date = as.Date(2011-09-01), ] p - ggplot(x[x$node==relay, ], aes(date, clients, group=1)) p - p + geom_line() + facet_grid(country ~ ., scales=free_y

Re: [tor-dev] A fun graph you can make at home

2014-10-29 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 02:38:16PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: This is a graph of the number of simultaneous relay users for every country, one country per row. It's roughly 30 cm wide and 3 m tall. https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/graphs/relays-all.pdf It's basically the same as https

Re: [tor-dev] Why the seeming anticorrelation between obfs3 and vanilla bridges in metrics graphs?

2014-10-31 Thread David Fifield
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 03:42:06PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 09:08:49AM +0100, Karsten Loesing wrote: On 23/10/14 19:32, David Fifield wrote: In the past few months of bridge user graphs, there is an apparent negative correlation between obfs3 users and vanilla

Re: [tor-dev] Why the seeming anticorrelation between obfs3 and vanilla bridges in metrics graphs?

2014-11-06 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 12:17:50PM +0100, Karsten Loesing wrote: On 01/11/14 01:44, David Fifield wrote: This might be the key to the mystery. It must be that PacificSunset, despite being an obfs3 bridge, doesn't have ExtORPort enabled, so all its obfs3 connections are being counted

[tor-dev] Pluggable-transport implementations of your website fingerprinting defenses

2014-11-09 Thread David Fifield
, without a commit history showing what was modified. What source code do you recommend for an implementation? David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Pluggable-transport implementations of your website fingerprinting defenses

2014-11-10 Thread David Fifield
implementing the website fingerprinting defense, then I wouldn't mind spending half a day to make them into a pluggable transport. But as it stands, it looks like it will be more work, essentially a reimplementation. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list

Re: [tor-dev] [tor-reports] Help desk report for November 2014

2014-12-06 Thread David Fifield
, a note in the support session (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2014SummerDevMeeting/SupportDiscussion) said Lunar wants to take the RT articles out of the RT DB, put them on a public web page, allow others to review them. Does anything like that exist? David Fifield

[tor-dev] How to inform support of user-relevant issues?

2014-12-06 Thread David Fifield
support workers about it, even though it might matter to them. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13788 https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-45-alpha-1-released#comment-79244 https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-45-alpha-2-released#comment-81358 David Fifield

Re: [tor-dev] [tor-reports] Help desk report for November 2014

2014-12-08 Thread David Fifield
an increase in Farsi requests or requests for bridges then? I don't mean to impose a lot of bookkeeping on you. I just want to see if this is a worthwhile idea. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi

[tor-dev] Tor bridge reachability timeline being updated?

2014-12-15 Thread David Fifield
of vantage points from the very beginning. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Internet-wide scanning for bridges

2014-12-17 Thread David Fifield
look like TLS either. One configuration might get past a censor that blacklists Tor; the other might get past one that whitelists TLS. But I think you're right, that a lot more people are exposing ORPorts on 443 or 9001 than are aware. David Fifield ___ tor

Re: [tor-dev] Bridge users by transport is broken

2015-02-04 Thread David Fifield
about syncing data between CollecTor/yatei and the EC2 instance that crunches numbers for user stats. But thanks for asking! Karsten, could I ask you to manually update the graph once more? I would like to include the numbers in the next monthly meek report. David Fifield

[tor-dev] How to set up meek on a cooperating web server

2015-02-07 Thread David Fifield
, but not more than other pluggable transports. David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Estimating censorship lag by obfs4 blocking

2015-02-02 Thread David Fifield
: between 2 and 10 weeks. Does anyone know information that could tighten up the bounds, a date between December 2 and February 1 when obfs4 bridges were known to be either accessible or inaccessible? David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Is it time to drop support for the v1/v2 protos?

2015-01-15 Thread David Fifield
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 02:29:28PM +0100, Philipp Winter wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 08:24:58PM +0100, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: Interestingly, that paints a completely different picture. I added that line to two machines (guard+exit) and after a few minutes : # cat

[tor-dev] meek works again in 4.5-alpha-3

2015-01-19 Thread David Fifield
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 02:57:19PM -0800, David Fifield wrote: What's a good way to inform support of issues that users might run into? Should I just send email to h...@rt.torproject.org, or is there a better way? I was thinking about this today because meek is broken in the 4.5-alpha

Re: [tor-dev] Is it time to drop support for the v1/v2 protos?

2015-01-12 Thread David Fifield
-sent_versions_at = time(NULL); var_cell_free(cell); return 0; } Are you sure you are deduplicating correctly? That's a lot of hosts. Even if it were only GFW probing, GFW rarely uses duplicate IPs, except for a few. Most IPs you will only see once or twice over the course of months. David Fifield

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: Orbot v15-alpha-3 with VPN and Meek!

2015-02-14 Thread David Fifield
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 03:22:38AM -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:08:10AM -0800, David Fifield wrote: An upstream HTTP proxy should work, either through torrc HTTPProxy or the --proxy option. Careful! The torrc HTTPProxy line is only for non-tunneled directory

Re: [tor-dev] What's the explanation for weekly cycles in user graphs?

2015-03-18 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:41:55PM +0100, Philipp Winter wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 06:09:00PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: You can eyeball more examples in the omni-graph: https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/graphs/relays-all.pdf That's a really useful overview! It would be great if we

[tor-dev] What's the explanation for weekly cycles in user graphs?

2015-03-17 Thread David Fifield
patterns emerge David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: [guardian-dev] Orbot v15 alpha 5 is out: MeekObfs4VPNQRCodez!

2015-03-19 Thread David Fifield
like to add a guide to https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#Quickstart and instructions to https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports#Howtousepluggabletransports . Or do you have such a guide I can just link to? David Fifield

Re: [tor-dev] Call for a big fast bridge (to be the meek backend)

2015-03-21 Thread David Fifield
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 08:41:20AM -0700, David Fifield wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 02:02:42PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: On 18/09/14 03:31, David Fifield wrote: Currently in the bundles we're not setting a bridge fingerprint, so relays wouldn't have to share a key

[tor-dev] Remove * from pluggable transports spec?

2015-03-19 Thread David Fifield
, and delete some underspecified and unused code? David Fifield ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

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